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Silver Serves In Scientific War Cortly Metal Replaces Copper. Zinc; Beats Babbitt for Bearings . 5 Solder of silver. It will join metal often Is stronger than Suggestion to historians look- ing for a distinctive name for World War II: How about the Silver Plated War? That's the kind of war we're fighting, and no kidding. The metal that puts the 10 cents luto a dime and the hallmarks on Jewelry and tableware Is today replacing such lowly metals as copper, nickel and zinc and doing their Jobs better than they o. Millions of ounces of silver, with it* alloys are helping build and to make more efficient and deadly battleships, tanks, alr- planes, trucks, torpedoes, bombs, fans and shells. Expensive? Yes, but worth It. Strength I* Silver's Great Asset Take airplanes, this war's most deadly weapon. Engine bearings wlaieb are lined with silver can withstand the tremendous pres- sures of high-speed motors better than the baibbitt metal bearings formerly used. Translated Into performance. this means that American planes can fly farther, faster and carry greater bomb kuute with silver-plated bearings than they could with babbitt aetaL Silver's greatest asset is its tre- mendous strength. Its resistance wider shock makes it invaluable In the recoil mechanism of high- powered guns, adding length to their range. The most dramatic uses of sil- ver hi this Sllver-Plated War, kowerer, are to be found In sol- der. Unlike lead, silver solder Joins metal so strongly that the pieces so strongly that the joint the original metal. Joint is often stronger than the original metal. Thus If a tank, for example, breaks down on the field, It often can be repaired with solder right on the spot. Use of Silver Frees Other Metals Miles of pipes in fighting ships and transports are now Joined with silver solder, giving them added ability to withstand shock and strain. In the production of many kinds of bombs, silver sol- der is used to seal the Joints. Being an exceptionally efficient conductor of electricity, silver al- ready ia being used for wire of various sizes, and it has been pro- posed as a material for heavy cable and the maesive. high-volt- age bus bars In Industrial plants. Since there would be no deter- ioration. It could be replaced after the war by the copper now need- ed elsewhere. Silver also Is making s major contribution to this Silver-Plated War by releasing quantities of precious other metals, like copper, nickel or zinc, for uses their spe- cial properties beet fit them. You can get an idea of how sil- ver Is helping to keep the war production ball rolling from com- parative consumption figures. In 1941, 80.000,000 more ounce* of sil- ver were fabricated than in 1940, an increase of 95 per cent. The firm of Handy & Harman, the na- tion's oldest and largest bullion dealers. which was recently awarded the Joint Army-Navy "E," reports increased production in some v eilver lines as much as 400 per cent within the past year. VOICE OF THE PRESS JUST ANYONE Most any mun can be an editor. All an editor has to do is to sit at a desk six days a week, four weeks to a month and twelve months a year and edit such stuff s this: "Mrs. Jones, of Cactus Creek, let a can-opener slip last week and cot her in the pantry; John Doe climbed on the roof of his kouse last week, looking for a leak, and fell, landing on his back porch; While Harold Green was escorting Miss Violet Wise from the church social last Sun- day night a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Green on the public square; Jim Frank, while harnessing a broncho last Satur- day, was kicked just south of his <orncrib." Port Perry Star. -o CHANCE FOR THE SHEEP An increase of close to 10 per cent." in the number of sheep be- tnjr kept in Wellington County is Indicated in a recent survey. Once upon a time, before cars became common on our highways, sheep foamed unchecked along the road- sides and, judfrin^ by the preva- lence of weeds this year, not only in fields but along the roadsides, H might be a good idea if they were allowed to do so again. Cer- tainly we have not spare labor to keep the weeds properly cut and if they continue to spread crops are bound to suffer. Some sheep and schoolboy shepherds might do a fine clean-up job. - Klora Kx press. AGAIN DENIED The Red Cross has again been bliged by rumor-mongers to deny that funds were ever used to pur- chase beer for Nazi prisoners in Canada. The pity is that such denials should ever have to be necessary. Hamilton Spectator. BRAZIL'S SIZE Brazil, our newest Ally, is the fourth largest country in the world in area, being topped by Russia, China and Canada. Con- tinental United States is slightly mailer. -Stratford Beacon-Herald. ITALIAN INVASION Thirteen Italians forming a commando landed on the North African coast, mined a railway line with explosives which failed to explode, and then got them- selves arrested by British military police. How very Italian! Windsor Star. "BLIMEY, IT'S WINNIE!" It was as "Mr. Bullfinch" that Prime Minister Churchill started out to review the battlefields in Egypt incognito. But the troops soon recognized him. "Blimey, it's Winnie," one of them cried. "Winnie's come out into the bloomin' desert." Sault Ste. Marie Star. o A HATEFUL WORD This new law making every able-bodied man work is going to be hard on some leisured, lazy men we know around town. They arc like the man in an old Eng- lish comedy who said: ''I eats well, I sleeps well, but when I 'ears the word work I goes all of a tremble." -St. Thomas Times-Journal. Women Workers Women workers will take their places hoside the men at Pictou, Nova Scotia, shipyards, starting September S. it was announced recently. Only a few have been engaged so far, lint more will be taken on later. ^INDIVIDUAL ^Citizen's ALAN MAURICE A 1 1RJWIN A\ A Weekly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Army A few weeks ago the question of age entered into this column. Age, to the aging, is an absorbing; topi and one that must be thor- outr 1 .' explored in time of war. At a recent meeting of lawyers in Cleveland, Col. J. L. Ralston, Minister of National Defence (or do you prefer "Offence"), told his audience that he looks for a long war. A day or so before that address Rt. Hon. W.L. Mac- Kenzfe King told us of the coun- try's plans for the proper use of every man and women in the pro- secution of the war. These, let us hope, are more than "straws in the wind." They are definite indications that we are coming: to the realization thr.t the suggestions made at the very start of the war by the Canadian Legion and other ex-service men are bearing fruit. Evidence that they are is to be found in the recent recruiting campaign for the Veteran's Guard of Canada. Work has been found for the old soldiers to do. That there is yet more work for old soldiers in uniform and out is indisputable, and it now looks as if the day is at hand when the great army of middle- aged Canadians will find itself considered qualified for something more than membership in the House of Commons. Last night a battalion of the Reserve Army was undergoing training in a park in an Eastern Canadian city. The- men were learning formation for different kinds of patrols. Some of the time they gathered round their Instructor to watch demonstra- tions. Some of the time they practised the formations a slow job. It was a cool night and the men wore their cotton summer uniforms. Some of them, includ- ing the instructors, were chilly. The Lieutenant-Colonel com- manding the unit he wears the D.S.O. and M.C., passed from group to group observing the training. He observed more than that. He observed that his men were cold. He passed the word to the instructors to interrupt the training and give some warming- up exercises. Now that is a little thing in it- elf. But it is a big thing when you look right into it. Any one of those instructors had the auth- ority to break off from his work and lead in warming up exercises. Or, if he did not want to act on his own initiative, could have ob- tained permission. Yet it took the old soldier, the leasoned veteran who is consider- ed too old for active command, to th'nk of his men's comfort. The younger instructors are all for efficiency for "hardening" their men. That's all very well. So is the old soldier, but he knows there is no- gain in efficiency if time is lost from the next train- Ing night by men who contracted cold? through lack of care. As I have written earlier in The Individual Citizen's Army there are many jobs that can be filled in Canada, in England, at the bases and on the line of com- munication by veterans of the last war, by men who were too young last time and are called too old this tune and bv men vvhopc cata- goiifs are lower than the "A' 1 that is required of the fighting soldier. To such jobs as organization, administration and supply such men take the more balanced think- ing that goes with maturer years. Youth can, will and, in the final essence, must plan and execute attack but youth is less apt to worry about such important work as consolidation and - where the plan calls for it evacuation. The same thing applies to the work available for those who are not available for the armed forces. After years of telling married wo- men who have raised families and are freed from domestic ties that they are too old, authorities in various lines of endeavour are now getting round to the realization that there are many spheres of useful activity in which older v,omen will not merely "do" hut for which they are much better fitted than young ones. I have seen no announcement yet about the nursing service of the Royal Canadian Army Medi- cal Corps so must assume that the age limit bars most veteran Nurs- in? Sisters of the 1914-1&19 war lrot nerving ag.an. Most mothers of young men serving in the Army will agree with me that a Nursing Sister who, in addition to her training, has the advantage of being a mother who has raised children of her own, would be the ideal type for hospitals in this country to which wounded who face a long convalescence will undoubtedly be lent. Yet and here is a situation worthy of Gilbert and Sullivan the only ex-XursIng Sisters who can qualify for such appointment are those who lied about their ages and were officially too young in the last war! No matter how you try to figure it 1914 sub- tracted from 1939 still leaves 25 and any nurse who is less than 45 today must have been less than 20 in 1914. She had to be 21 to enter a training school, three years were required for the course, leaving the minimum age on enlistment ax 24. Twenty- four and 215 always add op to 49 and 45 is the upper age limit! That's by the way -- what we are concerned with is the desire of older people to do something to help the fight along. Not only their desire - - their undoubted capacity for service. The time will come --it must when all of us who are cap- able of helping will be drafted. Until the time comes let's do our share by helping to sae merchant commodities that come by sea, by carrying parcels form the store, by doing our own little bit to keen prices down and the wolf of inflation from the door. Self Heating Tins British troops serving in cold climates are to be provided with self-heating tins of soup. All they will have to do to pre- pare It }& to punch two holes in the top of the tin and light a chemical heater running through the middle of It. In two minutes they will have a pint of hot soup oven in tem- peratures ,-is low as .10 below zero. This is only one of the new features of bal:.ni-tcl feeding which War Office - ientists have devel- oped. There is the .Mountain (Arctic)' iron ration. Thi- contains enough food to Id i i> a man going for 24 hours in a freezing temperature and iinv, U-s peuimir.i:i, the .stand- by of An.-iic exi)loriT. LISTEN TO "COUNTRY ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ONTARIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS EACH SUNDAY AT 2 P.M. CFRB - 860 On Your Dial THE WAR - WEEK Commentary on Current Events General Wavell Gives Optimistic Review Of War On All Fronts Freeh from a long series of Al- lied conferencee. Gen. Sir Archi- bald P. Wavell drew a broad and confident picture of the war's out- come with the assurance That the United State*, Britain, Russia and China "are going to fight it out." Russia "The Russians are going to hold and we'll do our best to help them. "Russia Is the heart of the prob- lem. The German objective doubt- less was to do what they did In 1918 put the Russians out of busi- ness so there would be no ques- tion of fighting on two fronts. "But the Russian Army still to Intact and Its Air Force i*i going strong and it is getting toward the end of the campaigning season although there will be another five weeks before weather stops the campaign. 1 ' The Atlantic "One of the biggest fights Is going on in the Atlantic. Our loss- es are serious, not eerlous enough to prevent us winning the war hut enough to hamper our strate- gy and delay our winning of It. I do not see the shipping situation getting worse, but better." Wavell said successes were be- ing scored against the eubmarine but added "what collapsed In the last war was not submarines but the supply of crews that will stick It out." R.A.F. Over Germany "The air offensive la causing Germany a great deal of damage both material and morale. We know of material damage from photographs. How much morale damage is a more difficult prob- lem. "But the attacks affect submar- ine and tank output and we are chucking more stuff at him (Hit- ler) than he ever chucked at Eng- land. He must think of propping up morale next winter." The Middle East "We've got Rommel held, but he Is much too close to the delta of the Nile. The hope is that we push him a good way back again. ... I'm sure Rommel won't get any farther." Hitler wanted to knock out the Russian Army. Wavell said, in or- der to have his army in Egypt free to hit through into the Middle East and with another through the Caucasus or Turkey. "But he ii< a long way off from the position he'd like to be in by the end of 1!I42. . . . He's behind his program. "There may b^ some fighting up In the Caucasus this winter but It wil not he easy for him to jje^t through." Pacific Theatre "As to the Japanese, he's got his hands full. He's like a boa constrictor wliich has swallowed a big goat. He neds time to digest it in a corner. "Japan is not likely to take on a Job like an Invasion of Australia or India. "We don't know how his navy was hit In the Solomons, but we helk-vo hard. He. is not flush with shipping, nor with a navy to meet both the American Navy and 'he British Eastern Fleet. "He is not trong in his air force. . . I iilwnys bolii-vml It. his weak point. . "Tlio Jap has two big tasks He must take into account the Rus- sian menace If he is to be able to digest what he already has. And sooner or later he must settle the Chinese biviness. It Is beginning lo look lately as if the Japs \vprc too late for attacking Siberia." The Indian Front Turning to his own Indian front, Wavell ass. :-ifil 'hat "since the. loss of Hurnu :uul before. 1 liave hei n planning t!ie ri>oc"np.rioii of it. not merely heoiii se it is a part of r.n- Brili-li Kmpirc but sfate- gically hec'i'iise it means :<- n Iwhing romi'iinications \v i ' !i China." Wavell <|:':-|i'U ll tO lilsC" I! ! Imlinti ijdliiiivl situation in-yond commenting tln.t ilespite intrnial troubles he still was <-'t IIS T'l, 000 I'pi'niits a iiin'itM. Second Front ''N'oboily is tinvr anxious lo start a second 'rout, than xe are. It is guile certain that as spun ;u- ever possible i.uth Am> . .. ail troops ami onrsehes will si.irt a second front, but I can'l ell yon when or win re. "We've fought on six fronts al- ready, at least. It's a biggish prob- lem starting on the continent. We'll have aome casualties very considerable both American and ours before we get back into the continent. But we'll get back." Mr. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, reminded a British audience the other day that in the matter of a "second front" the de- cision must be taken by those in authority who have access to all the facts, that it would not help Russia "to take action which might lead to disaster of our own forces.'' That needed to be eaid. Many of those who go all-out for im- mediate invasion of Western Eur- ope by a British-American army base their demands on the need for "helping Russia." Precipitate action. In fact, might do Russia Infinite harm. The invasion of German Europe, when it conies, will be a measure to help not only Russia, but Britain, the United States, China, and every country fighting the Axi/3 or overrun by the Axis. Russia, it is fair to poiiu .>ut, did not come into the war through an alliance with Britain or at Brit- ain's request, but because she was attacked by Germany. Hitler, having brought Russia in on our side we then had a common t-a i.-e. and Britain has met the natural obligation to a hard-pressed ally by diverting to the Soviet Union military supplies which would have brought the second front appreci- ably nearer if they could have bet n kept in the United Kingdom. Britain and France went to war with Germany because they had given their word to fight if Poland were attacked. Every other coun- try In the group of United Nations went to war because it was itself attacked by Germany. Italy or Japan. Plain Speaking The frank insistence now being made in Moscow that a second front be opened at whatever cost Is viewed seriously by The New York Times. The Ruseiau de- mands nail for plain speaking. We are not in this war to save Rus- sia. Russia is not in this war to save us. She did not try to save Norway. Denmark. Belgium, the Netherlands or France in llMtt. She did not lift a finger wht-u the invasion of Britain seemed immi- nent. Let it be admitted tli.it she was no more selfish then >.mn Britain and France were when they abandoned Czechoslovakia to the wolves, or than we were when, still clinging to an obsolete iso- lationism, we connived to tin' be- trayal. Now let us consider our .n-"ial relationship to Russia and h.-:- ac- tual relationship to iu-. Self-pre- servation is her first law. ;ii!'l it la also ours. Splf-nroservation dic- tates to her that slie shall not risk losing more than she gains by per- mitting us to line her Sib- .1,111 bases against Japan, though by doing so we might save :ii.i:iy thousands of American Hv.-s und many billions of American d<> : Si'lf-prest'rvatjon dictates to us and to Britain that we sha:I :u>t vainly sacrifice half a million men Jurt bi-c.r.ise we admi:-" pni'.i-::i'i- ly the gallant d"fenciv>i of > illn- grad, Decision For Specialists ,i ye no choice but to Iviive to the speiialists in such m.i"i_'rs the decision us to w'.ien \vi O.ill strike on the Kuropean i'mi' It mny be that a blow stnii ; . Ilis fall, a; ;;--c.:t risk and wrtli , louse?, will fotitribiite in . 'o final victory than a Iie;iv:> , , stn i-k nex: sin-ing, it ni.i we have mo!-" chance :'or su if we wait. Out this is not a t|-ies- : 'i' i be settli d by .icclam.i; -.on in public ni'-eiin^*. or in ;'] (if n>-\\ i;aii. :-s .in HMKazincs. i'ii- floors of <'ou :r .-. . It is Volly tn n:ti :.v); ;o s.-;tle it i:i Jap Deviltry Til' 1 Opium S ppn si n Cu sion recently bnudras; a:i ul I'liai 1 .^'- i.liat lH.tiiiO.i'iw ot 30, ' Chini SO >;i Mamvuii-iii h:i\ .ic- ((>:!! ctiiuin addicts as a 'i -'iH of i - del! > .i-- .Iiip.inoe ;>.):icy ol iK'Niinii's the minds ami \>rliea of >:ri;i'iii:i;M of orciii'ird ' T -i- tori. x. REG'LAR FELLERS -On the Spot By GENE BYRNES MOW, YOU WAIT RIGHT ' HERE ON THIS CORNER AND FOR GOODNESS SAKE KEEP THAT WHITE SUIT CLEAN/ 1 KNOW THE PAYOFF HERE.' MOM WILL TAKE TWO HOURS FOR SHOPPIN OH, HECK.' tr's STARTED S TO RAIN AN' I'M SUPPOSED TO KEEP CLEAN .'